The Canadian Pacific Railway made Revelstoke by pushing through Rogers Pass in the 1880s — before the railway, there was nothing here but a river crossing. The Railway Museum preserves that history with an impressive collection of restored equipment: steam locomotives, a business car from the 1890s, snowplows, and the massive rotary snowplow that kept the tracks open through Rogers Pass winters. The exhibits are outdoors and under cover alongside the original station.
The museum covers the CPR's Mountain Division, which operated the most technically challenging section of track in North America. Rogers Pass involves grades steep enough that early trains had to be broken into sections and hauled separately, with runaway accidents a regular hazard. The collection puts the machinery in context and is one of the better railway museums in western Canada.